Executive Profile*

Om Prakash Bhatt

Former Independent Director, Chairman of Project Appraisal Committee, Member of Audit & Ethics Committee, Member of Stakeholders Relationship Committee, Member of Committee On Disputes Resolution, Member of Health Safety & Environment (HSE) & Sustainable Development Committee and Member of Financial Management Committee, Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Ltd.

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Total Calculated Compensation

This person is connected to 69 board members in 8 different organizations across 19 different industries.

Background*

Mr. Om Prakash Bhatt serves as Chairman of the Board at SBI Capital Markets Limited. Mr. Bhatt serves as the Chairman of State Bank Of Indore and SBI Factors & Commercial Services. He serves as Chairman of the Board of State Bank of India (Canada), State Bank of India (Mauritius) Ltd., State Bank of India (California), SBI Funds Management Private Ltd., SBI Pension Funds Pvt Ltd., SBI Custodial Services Pvt Ltd., SBI General Insurance Company Ltd., SBI Life Insurance ... Company Limited, SBI Caps Ventures Limited, SBI DFHI Limited, SBI Cards and Payments Services Private Limited. He served as the Chairman of the Board at State Bank of Saurashtra. He served as a Director of State Bank of Saurashtra since July 1, 2006. He has been an Independent Non-Executive Director of Tata Consultancy Services Limited since April 2, 2012. He has been an Independent Non-Executive Director of Standard Chartered PLC since January 1, 2013 and Tata Steel Limited since June 10, 2013. He has been an Independent Director of Hindustan Unilever Limited since December 20, 2011. He serves as a Director at GE Capital Business Process Management Services Private Limited. He is a governor on the board of the Center for Creative Leadership. Mr. Bhatt served as a Group Executive of National Banking of State Bank of India. Mr. Bhatt served as the Head of the entire State Bank Group consisting at 8 domestic and 5 international banking subsidiaries, 10 non-banking subsidiaries and 2 joint ventures. He was an In Charge of the National Banking Group at SBI. Mr. Bhatt served as the Managing Director of State Bank of India since April 2006 and State Bank of Travancore since February 2005. He started his banking career as a Probationary Officer at State Bank of India in 1972 and has held several key assignments at various offices. He has held several critical positions in retail, corporate and international banking. He was closely associated with SBI's ambitious computerization project and spent 6 years co-ordinating the team's efforts from SBI's Corporate Centre at Mumbai. He served as General Manager and Deputy Managing Director at SBI. He served as the Scheme Co-ordinator of Branch Computerisation at SBI central office, Regional Manager, SBI Jaipur Zone, General Manager at Lucknow zone and Chief General Manager at North East Zone and also served as its Representative in Washington D.C. since September 1997, where his duties included maintaining rapport with FRB, FDIC, US Exim, Indian Embassy, American Banks, World Bank, IMF. Mr. Bhatt was also responsible for arranging money market lines for Bank's foreign offices, arrangement of syndicated/project finance loans, etc. In a career spanning 38 years with SBI, he held a number of roles beginning with the lead bank department, which ushered in financial inclusion, leading the project team that pioneered SBI’s technology initiative in the 1990s, assignments at SBI’s London and Washington offices, general management roles from 2004 to 2006, and managing director of SBI in 2006. He served as the Chairman of the State Bank Group until March 2011. He served as the Chairman of State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur since July 1, 2006. He served as Chairman of the Board at State Bank of Mysore from July 1, 2006 to March 31, 2011. He served as the Chairman of State Bank of Travancore from July 1, 2006 to April 2011. He served as the Chairman at Global Trade Finance Private Limited (now SBI Global Factors Limited) until March 31, 2011. He served as the Chairman of State Bank Of Patiala. He served as the Chairman of Indian Banks' Association from June 9, 2010 to March 31, 2011. Mr. Bhatt served as the Chairman of State Bank of Hyderabad Ltd. He served as the Chairman of State Bank of India from July 1, 2006 to March 31, 2011. He served as a Deputy Chairman and Director of Indian Banks' Association. He served as a Director of State Bank of Mysore until March 31, 2011. He served as a Director of Export-Import Bank of India. He served as a Director at General Insurance Corporation of India. He served as a Director of State Bank of Travancore from July 1, 2006 to April 1, 2011. He served as a Director of State Bank of India from April 26, 2006 to March 31, 2011. He served as an Independent Director of Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Ltd. from December 14, 2011 to December 13, 2014. He served as an Independent Director at Malu Paper Mills Ltd. He serves as a Member of the General Council at National Co-operative Development Corporation. He serves as President of the Governing Council at Indian Institute of Banking & Finance. He serves as a Member of the Governing Board at National Institute of Bank Management, Institute of Banking Personnel Selection and Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations. He serves as a Member of Board of Governors of XLRI, Jamshedpur and Indian Institute of Management, Indore. He is a Member of Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology and Co-opted Member of the National Council at Confederation of Indian Industry. Mr. Bhatt is Official Member of Board of Trade – Ministry of Commerce and Industry - Directorate General of Foreign Trade under the Chairmanship of C&I Minister. He is a Member of Khadi and Village Industries Commission. He is a Member Standing Committee on Infrastructure Finance- Ministry of Finance- under the Chairmanship of the Finance Secretary. He is a Member of Steering Committee on Financial Resources of Planning Commission. He was honored with the following: Business Standard's Banker of the Year for 2006-2007; CNN-IBN Indian of the Year 2007 in Business Category; Transformational Leader Award 2007 by Asian Centre for Corporate Governance & Sustainability and Indian Merchants' Chambers; and was conferred the “Best Executive 2008“ award by financial magazine Asiamoney. A National Science Talent Search scholar. Mr. Bhatt is a leading practitioner in the field of Auditing and Taxation. Mr. Bhatt is a member of South India Rajasthani Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Bhatt is a Commerce Graduate and is a member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He is a graduate in Science and a post graduate in English Literature (Gold Medal).

Board Members Memberships*

Independent Director, Chairman of Stakeholders Relationship Committee, Chairman of Corporate Social Responsibility Committee, Member of Audit Committee and Member of Nomination & Remuneration Committee

Independent Non-Executive Director, Member of Audit Committee, Member of Stakeholders' Relationship Committee, Member of Risk Management Committee, Member of Stakeholders' Relationship Committee, Member of Ethics & Compliance Committee and Member of Corporate Social Responsibility (Csr) Committee

Non Executive Independent Director, Chairman of Risk Management Committee, Member of Audit Committee, Member of Corporate Social Responsibility Committee, Member of Nomination & Remuneration Committee and Member of Finance Committee

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